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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

MORE LIKE OURSELVES

An
old friend told me a story of his mother, who had been in an Alzheimer’s unit
for several years. I had known his mother since I was a kid. She was always a
lady, in the old-fashioned, good sense. She was not “prim and proper,” but “neat,”
in all the meanings of that word. So I was not surprised by this story, because
mostly as we age we become more like ourselves.

Dave
and his wife, Maggie, were visiting with Beulah in the lounge off the office
one day when a middle-aged woman came in and signed her mother in. The mother
was fine until they came out of the office and the daughter was getting ready
to leave and it was clear the mother wasn’t going with her. When the mother found
out that she had been consigned to an Alzheimer’s unit, she threw a fit.

Beulah
leaned over to Dave and said, “If I ever have to live in a place like this, I’m
certainly not going to act like that.”

JRMcF

johnrobertmcfarland@gmail.com

I
became disturbed by the huge number of military suicides, both veterans and
active duty, so I wrote VETS, about
four handicapped and homeless Iraqistan veterans accused of murdering a VA
doctor. It’s a darn good tootin’ adventure mystery story. My royalties go to
helping prevent veteran suicides. You can buy it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble,
etc.